Building Muscle for Better Symmetry

Go until you get tired of it, then reverse out of it, but don't reverse out to the point where you put fat back on reverse out to where you can now kind of cruise a bit and get rid of your diet fatigue and then, then slowly get back into it and try to make that next drop out for women. I'll do this a lot where I'll take them, maybe they're 35% body fat, and we get them down to say 26%. And that's where they start seeing some trouble areas and they start getting discouraged. I'm like, okay, let's let's put the brakes on the dieting. Let's reverse out a little bit. And let's kind of cruise and take a couple of months, maybe we do some hypertrophy stuff and build up your upper body. So it looks more symmetrical with the lower body. Then we'll go back into it and see if we can drop the next couple of percent we do that. and then, okay, let's pull them out of it. Let's build their upper body a bit more. And then we go for the next 2%. But the key is to make that forward progress. And then if you're going to stop at that point, don't slide back. Don't let it push you back to where you were. You have to maintain that somewhere around where you finished and try to maintain that for a bit of time. And that where I would highly advise especially women to work on their upper bodies because women are inherently just traditionally bottom heavy And that also one of the things that visually is sometimes an illusion It screws them up because they lose a lot of fat in their upper body. And now it looks like they have a different upper and lower body. So it's like, let's go into a hypertrophy phase and build up some muscle. But let's not do it in a way where you're going to put on a bunch of fat. We just want to try to put on muscle and just take months and months of upper body work. Now, if your upper body is bigger, it makes your lower body look more symmetric. Now, when you start to diet down again, it's going to take a few more percent before you go, oh, I can see the trouble areas. Okay, let's stop, build up the upper body. Let's just keep going through this process over and over, and eventually everything will look symmetric. But in that case, I think what a lot of women should focus on is more bodybuilding type work and thinking about like building shoulders, shoulders, especially the medial delt. If you can get the shoulders to be a little bit wider, it's always going to make your hips look more narrow. If you look at guys who have a more of a mesomorphic type build like I have, you know, kind of wide shoulders, narrow hips. OK, you look at a woman, wide hips, narrow shoulders. So how do we equalize that? Well, build bigger shoulders and now they'll look more symmetric with your hips and then diet down the hips. It just makes sense to do it that way. Whereas someone that had, like myself, I have to make sure when I train my legs that I focus on quads, especially the outside quad. Because if my outside quad shrinks because my shoulder is so wide, it makes me look like I have no legs. So everybody's got their own battles that they have to deal with.